Corona and being older teach me that to talk to people/have and make new friend you must push yourself to go out and too long being alone is like a hole that is so hard to escape cause its pretty dang comfy.
Being alone takes no effort you can just tune out the world create your own bubble and do what you want, it takes no effort IMO and for me it lulls me into a sense of security in a way that if you don’t interact with people they don’t need to worry about hurting them and being hurt yourself so you don’t need to train your social skills.
Well that is just my experience while I train back my social (talking and listening skill) that degraded so much. Believe it or not I used to like go out and talk and meet people and it feels so depressing that I became this supa akward closed off people with negative social skill